Whipple Fred B4

Whipple Fred B4
Image title:
Informal portrait of Fred Whipple
Credit line:
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Description:
Fred Lawrence Whipple (Harvard-Smithsonian) received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences for 'his research activities involving meteors and comets, which led to a better understanding of the physical properties of the Earth's upper atmosphere and provided information on the density of meteoritic material in space.'
Photo date:
circa 1985
Original format:
1 photographic print (black and white; 7 x 5 inches)
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